Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that I have patronized baseball, football and polo games and prize fights, however I do not own an airplane that will fly-merely a retired one as a souvenir at Shady Oaks...
Entering the Armory November 27, the polo teams will begin their indoor season with practice five days a week, the first game with the Commonwealth Club League being scheduled for Saturday, December...
...Peek of Polo. Milo Reno, who hates Secretary Wallace as one of the fathers of the AAA, has high regard for AAA's Administrator George Nelson Peek. "He's the squarest shooter in the Agriculture Department," says Mr. Reno. "Milo Reno," Administrator Peek replies, "is a very sincere fellow. As to his objectives, we all think the same as he does, but as to his methods, I think there is room for great difference of opinion...
George Peek was born 59 years ago at Polo, Ill. His sympathy for farmers was not acquired wholly as result of his experience in the plow business, where he found that "you can't make a nickel off of a busted customer." Still clear in his mind is the picture of his family's eviction from their farm at Polo when the mortgage was foreclosed. In 1922, year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow...
With a wealth of material reporting from the Sophomore class, in addition to three members of last year's Varsity team, the Harvard polo squad has a large number of promising players. There are more Varsity candidates at present than both the Varsity and Freshman squads had last year...